Lectures by David Gregory

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-1608
• Dates of Creation:c1694-c1705
• Name of Creator:
  Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford)
  Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh)
  Pringle, Francis, fl1705 (physician and professor of Greek, University of St Andrews)
  Wood, George, fl1705
• Language of Material:Latin
• Physical Description:
  1 volume

• Scope and Content

  Volume consists of teaching material originally produced by David Gregory, here transcribed with numerous drawings by Francis Pringle in Oxford in 1694-1695 and George Wood in St Andrews 1705. The volume's index is in Gregory's hand. The lectures, all by Gregory, are the Institutiones Astronomiae, the Oxford address on professional education he called De Ratione Studii Mathematici Consilium, the Lectiones Opticae, Trigonometria Planorum Angulorum, Geometria Practica, Geometriae de Motu, and the Hydrostatica. There is also James Gregorie's doctoral thesis, edited by his nephew David Gregory and dictated in 1690.

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• Subjects

  Astronomy

  Geometry

  Mathematics

  Optics